It is a great comfort to be healed through Christian Science. The mind is refreshed, the body is freed from discomfort, the intellect is energized, the character is sweetened. But of more significance than these welcome improvements is the transformation taking place as human thought is removed in a measure from the basis of matter to that of Spirit, the source of spiritual man, made in God's likeness.
The person healed may be satisfied simply to be a more normal human being, but whether he realizes it or not, he is taking part in a transformation which the Science of being is bringing to the whole race. Whatever releases one individual in any degree from the material sense of life has its healing effect upon all mankind. Spiritual thought, which achieves healing, is not confined by distance or to brain, but radiates its enlightening influence universally.
By a healing we transcend in a degree the physical personality and glimpse spiritual man as he exists perpetually in God's heaven. If we aim only for physical benefits in our healing efforts, as do those who depend upon drugs and other material means for health, we miss the whole point of the ministry of Christian Science. And we shall not be able to demonstrate the divine energies that bring about a true healing.
